Canopic Jar with Man's Head
664–525 BCE
Diameter: 16.6 cm (6 9/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)
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In the process of mummification, the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines were removed, separately embalmed, and stored in specialized jars known as canopic jars (after a sailor in Greek mythology, who died at the town of Canopus in the Nile Delta and was worshipped there in...
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